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SO GTK+ 3.0 will Not support Directfb, only 2.22 stable at best when that arrives.
Yip, that was exactly what I was saying. The removal of DirectFB support in gtk+-3.0 prompted the merging and improvement of DirectFB support in gtk+-2.22
If you follow that thread you might notice that the backend has now been restored (in gtk+-2.22) and is working much better than it has in a long time.
So one could argue that the decision to remove it actually had a positive effect on DirectFB
This is the a development release leading toward 3.0.
Notes:
* GTK+ 3 will be parallel installable with GTK+ 2.x, and
this release has been prepared to test this by renaming
all .pc files, libraries, include paths, and so forth,
to include a '3.0' component."
....
"* The directfb backend has been removed
...."
This is the last development release leading toward 2.22.
Notes:
* GTK+ 2.22 is planned to be the last stable GTK+ 2.x release,
to be released in parallel with GTK+ 3. It will not receive
major feature work beyond API additions that are required
to facilitate porting to GTK+ 3...."
...."
* Win32:
- Fixes to the MS Windows theme engine
* Directfb:
- Many fixes
...."
SO GTK+ 3.0 will Not support Directfb, only 2.22 stable at best when that arrives.
your only hope seeing a no Companies have steped up to become official Directfb maintainers for this GUI libray it seems is some ordinary joe/guy called Lionel Landwerlin
"For those who care, I started to hack/fix on the GTK+ DirectFB backend
about 4 months ago. I needed to build WebKit for a Set Top Box which
only provided a frame buffer driver. Before that, I already wrote a
couple of DirectFB drivers who worked on top of proprietary drivers (not
the usual frame buffer) still for Set Top Box.
If you follow that thread you might notice that the backend has now been restored (in gtk+-2.22) and is working much better than it has in a long time.
So one could argue that the decision to remove it actually had a positive effect on DirectFB
One thing I occasionally still use directfb for is Links2 if I want to look something up while installing or working on a system without a functioning xorg server.
It sounds like an interesting project, too bad there's such little interest in it.
DirectFB is unmaintained in GTK+ because nobody really uses it anymore. DirectFB is a lot less interesting in today's KMS/GEM/TTM/DRI2 world. What DirectFB still offers is less interesting than just using a tiny X server (e.g. kdrive) or Wayland.
Wayland is not the basis of any (usable) distribution because Wayland itself is still too young. It's more of an alpha/demo technology right now than a ready-to-use product.
Does this affect any efforts to build an OS on the latest Linux and GTK 3 and just *not support X11*? I know there are experimental OSes out there, like ReactOS and the Amiga OS clone, but if there's something radical that's actually going to work itself back into Ubuntu, I might be interested.
Do any GTK3/Wayland/Linux-KMS distributions currently exist?
Phoronix: GTK+ 2.90.7 Released, Drops DirectFB Support
While GNOME 3.0 has been delayed to next March, the development releases towards version 3.0 of the GTK+ tool-kit continues in a steadfast manner. After the last GTK+ 3.0 snapshot a few weeks back that ported most of the GTK+ drawing to use Cairo, GTK+ 2.90.7 has been released...
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